Look around your home some time, and you'll notice yourself surrounded by objects so familiar they're more or less invisible. Your lightbulbs. Your corkscrew. Your coat hooks. Your thermostat. But ...

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Researchers have discovered a new method for turning nearly any object into a data storage unit. This makes it possible to save extensive data in, say, shirt buttons, water bottles or even the lenses ...

Every day, you interact with a range of objects that you might never suspect could come to your rescue in a pinch. From the mundane to the slightly more obscure, these items can become lifesavers when ...

Whether motivated by spring cleaning or concern over cold and flu season or coronavirus, people are focused more than ever on ways to disinfect everyday household objects. Where to start? There’s ...

BALTIMORE — “I don’t know any artist as difficult to figure out as Edouard Manet.” So said Bill Johnston, the curator in charge of shepherding a touring show called “Manet: The Still-Life Paintings” ...

If the so-called Internet of Things ever becomes one of those proverbial next big things in technology, Thomas Lee, a card-carrying member of the cohort of big brains who populate Silicon Valley, ...

There is a natural product we grow ourselves which can be used to make clothing, ropes and even building materials – and much of it goes to waste on a daily basis. But perhaps not for long. An ...

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